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Andres Clarens @andresclarens.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Bad Bunny's halftime show: distribution poles on stage, songs about gas to get to work, building materials for housing! He connected infrastructure to people's lives with pure joy. The climate community needs to talk more like this and less about energy transition, industrial decarb, carbon removal

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Andres Clarens @andresclarens.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Those of us thinking about ways to make housing more affordable in American rarely pause to consider that we haven’t changed the way we build in generations. In my new piece in the @washingtonpost.com I argue the Trump admin is abandoning US innovations that could change that. wapo.st/4lDmrrM

wapo.st

Opinion | The future of home-building is here. And we’re behind.

The Trump administration cut grants for materials development that could reduce construction costs.

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Andres Clarens @andresclarens.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

This is tragic and my heart goes out to the workers. But it’s also a friendly reminder that everything around you (steel, concrete, glass, paint, carpet) is a fossil fuel derivative. New technologies (lower temp, pressure) are on the horizon and we need to adopt them for climate AND for workers.

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At Least One Dead in Explosions at U.S. Steel Plant, Authorities Say

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Scott Doney @scottdoney.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Construction materials generate nearly one-third of global carbon dioxide emissions. New open-access paper tracks emissions from global supply chains for cement, steel, metals, and plastics #UVA #PNNL @uvaenvironment.bsky.social @uvaenvisci.bsky.social #CO2 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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How demand for and trade of construction materials affects greenhouse gas emissions

Construction materials generate nearly one-third of global carbon emissions, yet conventional accounting captures only a fraction of this impact. Usin…

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Andres Clarens @andresclarens.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

🏭 New piece out today where I argue that Trump pulling $3.7B in grants might speed up the energy transition in industry. Without carbon capture as a backup plan, industries will need to focus on new materials that are faster, cheaper, and better ⚡ theconversation.com/how-the-end-...

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How the end of carbon capture could spark a new industrial revolution

The Trump administration is pulling back billions of dollars in industrial development money for carbon capture and storage projects. That may force industries to actually cut emissions instead.

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Andres Clarens @andresclarens.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

@rebeccawdell.bsky.social is 🎯 and if you want to get a preview for how hard this will be come visit us in Virginia where we have to basically double the capacity of our grid over the next few years because we’re data center ground zero.

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Andres Clarens @andresclarens.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Trade patterns in these materials is changing quickly as we show in a new pre-print. US policy focus has been on understanding European CBAM but this changes things and given how much of these materials we import from China, this will impact trade, prices, emissions. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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How Demand for and Trade of Construction Materials Affects Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The construction industry consumes large volumes of materials with high embodied emissions (such as cement, iron and steel, other metals, and plastics), and it

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